Andrew Wakefield to speak at Brandeis about the evil cabal conspiring against him

ScienceBlogs.com notes the invitation to speak at Brandeis this evening, extended to one Andrew Wakefield, anti-vaccination posterchild. His speaking engagement comes just two months after Boston's second outbreak of measles in less than a year.

Jake Crosby, who heads the group at Brandeis who invited Wakefield, is known for blogging about supposed conspiracies and conflicts of interest at ageofautism.com. The event is sponsored by...ageofautism.com. It gets better: Wakefield had established patents on a Measles vaccine, and his fraudulent research, paid for in part by lawyers of families with Autistic children trying to sue vaccine makers, was published in the midst of a rise in Measles cases in the late 80's. Wakefield stood to have profited enormously if the MMR vaccine was pulled off the market.